as in combustible
capable of catching or being set on fire
don't put something so burnable as a towel next to the stove
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For instance, pipes carrying combustible fuels like gas can accumulate significant charge along the walls even if those pipes are nonconducting.—
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Feb. 2025
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The fires are the result of a confluence of combustible trends.—
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The mentor Steffen’s 6-foot-3 frame and increasingly explosive athleticism are nothing to scoff at, but his superpower isn’t necessarily physical.—
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The escalating tension of that final act is as shocking and violent and viciously cold as anything in Franco’s filmography, which has seldom shied away from stark depictions of human cruelty — whether intimate in scale, like After Lucia, or encompassing explosive societal conflict, like New Order.—
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You’re reminded that human beings are extremely flammable.—
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Disposable vapes, intended to be thrown away once used, come with a highly flammable lithium ion battery that poses a risk for garbage trucks and waste processing facilities, said Joe La Mariana of the group RethinkWaste at a Wednesday press conference.—
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And all this against an inflammable backdrop of geopolitical crises including but not limited to the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.—
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Heat also stresses old electrical systems — insulation breaks down; lubricants in relays dry out — and a not-insignificant amount of the subway’s electrical wiring dates to the 1920s and 1930s, some of it cloth-covered, inflammable, and pervious to water.—
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“Burnable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burnable. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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